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Fun With Pattern Blocks

1-2-3 Come Do Some Pattern Block Activities With Me.  

playing with pattern blocksPattern blocks are one of my students’ favorite math manipulatives.  We count, sort, pattern, and do all sorts of interesting things with them.

cover Fun With Pattern Blocks copy 3With that in mind, I wanted to design some additional activities that would help practice a variety of standards while they “played” with them. What started out as a game & booklet, turned into a jumbo "Fun With Pattern Blocks" packet.

If you don’t have a wooden or plastic set of pattern blocks, no worries, I’ve included patterns so that you can make your own paper ones.

preview pattern block funPick and choose your favorites and use them as math centers, whole group activities, games, worksheets, homework, and an easy assessment tool.

They’re great for early finishers and something to tuck in your sub folder as well.

The packet includes:

* Anchor charts, pocket chart cards & posters.

Pages from PREVIEW Pattern Block PKT 3* Four, pattern block shape BOOKLETS, with 4-on-a-page patterns, which make a “just the right size” mini booklet:

1. Shape UP: featuring “color me” kids holding a shape.
2. Pattern Block Fun: featuring “connect the dots” and “finish drawing the shape” pages.
3. Spying Shapes Inside Shapes: discovering, counting, coloring and naming the various shapes and …
4. Maze Craze: featuring mini mazes in the various shapes, such as “You’re hung up in a hexagon! Can you find your way out?”

pattern block head* A set of “Block Heads”, which I use for flashcards, decorative anchor charts, & the “Four Corners” game. I've included a variety of silly eyeballs to mix & match.  Their "mouth" names the shape.

You can also use as a whole-group craftivity & have students pick their favorite and make one of their own, writing attributes, and why it’s their favorite on the back.

* Pattern block class bookA "trace, write & color" flip-a-strip booklet, as well as a full-page booklet, which can be used for a center, anchor charts or a class-made book.

Hiding hexagon game* All sorts of GAMES, many of which can be used as quick, easy and super-fun assessments, such as the “I Spy A Pattern Block!” worksheets.

* There are a variety of dice games as well, like our favorite “Rack Up a Stack!”

trappezoid tower hexed and cubed pattern block games* Other games include: “Trapped in a Trapezoid”, “Hiding in a Hexagon”, “Trapezoid Towers”, “Rhombus Race”, “Fill it Up”, “Spin to Win”, “Two Trapped Trapezoids”, “Triangle Trees”, and a “Which trapezoid is bigger? challenge.

trapped trapezoid pix* The “Memory Match” game cards can also be used for, Sorting, Patterning, “I Have; Who Has?” 1-to-1 correspondence, “Kaboom!” and “What’s Missing?” activities and games.

traps to a hex pixStudents practice greater & less than, color words, alphabetizing, strategy, graphing, tally marks and addition.

hexagon fill it up copy* The number strip PUZZLES (1-10 & 11-20), help with number recognition, counting & sequencing.

pattern block names* And finally, a cute pattern block name craft, which makes a colorful bulletin board display, and provides a simple way to review shapes, colors, letters, capitalization, alphabetizing and patterns.

patttern block namesThere are several pattern options, including one with the shapes inside square blocks.  Choose your favorite, or give children a choice. 

pattern block pals craft covToday's featured FREEBIE is a simple craft I call, Pattern Block Pals.

trapezoid palThe gloved-hands & tennis shoes on their feet at the end of colorful accordion-folded legs add the "Awww-dorable!" factor.

Completed projects make a super-cute "Getting In Shape" bulletin board display.

Besides my featured FREEBIE you may also be interested in these other FREE pattern block activities: 

pattern block picturesHolly and Heather over at Prekinders have over 20 free pattern block picture mats in full color, as well as black and white. 
ABC Teach also has a big variety of pattern block picture mats: toys, animals, flowers, and some really interesting and challenging patterns.

alphabet pattern block mats covI was really excited to find a complete set of FREE pattern block mats for upper & lowercase letters as well as numbers over at Confessions of a Homeschooler.  Erica also has a nice set of "complete the pattern" cards.

Me 3Well that’s it for now.  Thanks for stopping by. 

My mom, who is 91, is visiting for the week, so time to do some sightseeing with her. Wishing you a stress-free day.

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2D Shape Activities: Piggy Practice

1-2-3 Come Study Shapes With Me!

pigs, pig crafts, pig activities, shape lessons, shape activities, 2D shapes, ccss pigs, ccss shapes, hexagon activities, shape crafts, shape booklet, daily 5 activities, dolch word activities, math centers, shape centers, shape mobiles, color word activities, color activities, shape word activities, shape attribute activities, This 40-page packet will help you review Common Core Standards: K.G.1, K.G.2, RF.K.1a, RF.K.3c, L.K.2a, L.K.2b, L.1.2b, RF.1.1a, K.MD.3, 1.MD.4, 1.G.1
with quick, easy and fun ways to review 2D shapes.

The packet includes:

  • pigs, pig crafts, pig activities, shape lessons, shape activities, 2D shapes, ccss pigs, ccss shapes, hexagon activities, shape crafts, shape booklet, daily 5 activities, dolch word activities, math centers, shape centers, shape mobiles, color word activities, color activities, shape word activities, shape attribute activities, Easy reader pig shape booklet using over 40 Dolch words. Nice for Daily 5 Word Work.
  • Attributes worksheet
  • pigs, pig crafts, pig activities, shape lessons, shape activities, 2D shapes, ccss pigs, ccss shapes, hexagon activities, shape crafts, shape booklet, daily 5 activities, dolch word activities, math centers, shape centers, shape mobiles, color word activities, color activities, shape word activities, shape attribute activities, Matching shapes to shape words worksheet
  • Spatial direction worksheet
  • Graphing extension
  • pigs, pig crafts, pig activities, shape lessons, shape activities, 2D shapes, ccss pigs, ccss shapes, hexagon activities, shape crafts, shape booklet, daily 5 activities, dolch word activities, math centers, shape centers, shape mobiles, color word activities, color activities, shape word activities, shape attribute activities, Craftivity: Nose Shape Matching Game or center activity
  • pigs, pig crafts, pig activities, shape lessons, shape activities, 2D shapes, ccss pigs, ccss shapes, hexagon activities, shape crafts, shape booklet, daily 5 activities, dolch word activities, math centers, shape centers, shape mobiles, color word activities, color activities, shape word activities, shape attribute activities, Craftivity: Piggy shape paddles. Use as a manipulative for assessing, or make several sets, pass them out to students so they can show you the correct shape when you ask for it.
  • Craftivity: Color shape mobile
  • 10 color word cards with 10 "color me" piggy cards.  Use to make Itty Bitty booklets or play Memory Match or "I Have; Who Has?" games.
  • Shape word cards with matching piggy shape picture cards in color and in black and white. Use to make Itty Bitty booklets or play Memory Match or "I Have; Who Has?" games.
  • pigs, pig crafts, pig activities, shape lessons, shape activities, 2D shapes, ccss pigs, ccss shapes, hexagon activities, shape crafts, shape booklet, daily 5 activities, dolch word activities, math centers, shape centers, shape mobiles, color word activities, color activities, shape word activities, shape attribute activities, Craftivity: Feed the Pig assessment game.  Use the above cards, pass them out to students and then have them feed the pig as you call for the various shapes or colors.
  • A certificate of praise

pigs, pig crafts, pig activities, shape lessons, shape activities, 2D shapes, ccss pigs, ccss shapes, hexagon activities, shape crafts, shape booklet, daily 5 activities, dolch word activities, math centers, shape centers, shape mobiles, color word activities, color activities, shape word activities, shape attribute activities, Click on the link to view/download the Pig Shape Packet.

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2D Shape Activities

1-2-3 Come Make Silly Shaped Owls With Me!

Since the Silly Shaped Penguins were such a huge hit in January, I decided to whip together a packet of 2D shape activities using owls. 

owl activities, owl crafts, owl shapes, silly shaped owls, silly shaped penguins, owl lessons, owl bulletin boards, shape bulletin boards, Daily 5 activities, daily 5 word work, common core owls, common core for kindergarten, common core for 1st grade, free common core math for kindergarten and 1st grade, 2D shapes, hexagon actities, shape booklet, graphing activities, I love owls, and lately, they seem to be all the rage.

You can quickly make these silly shaped owls and increase your students knOWLedge of shapes, shape words, attributes etc.

These activities make nice Daily 5 Word Work lessons, and will help reinforce Common Core State Standards: K.G.1, K.G.2, K.MD.3, 1.MD.4, 1.G.1

  • Owl shape "craftivity".  Using the patterns, make the owls and laminate. 
  • Use them as anchor charts, a shape bulletin board, oral assessments, or manipulatives for students to hold up during a shape story.
  • Make an extra laminated set and cut them in half for an independent math center. 
  • Choose 4 and suspend them from the ceiling in each corner of your classroom, so that you can play "4 Corners".  My kiddos absolutely LOVE this game and it's a quick, easy and super-fun way to reinforce the more difficult shapes.  When they've learned those, I hang up 4 other ones 'til they know them all.
  • Students could also make one or several at a math center, perhaps choosing their favorite shaped owl(s).

owl activities, owl crafts, owl shapes, silly shaped owls, silly shaped penguins, owl lessons, owl bulletin boards, shape bulletin boards, Daily 5 activities, daily 5 word work, common core owls, common core for kindergarten, common core for 1st grade, free common core math for kindergarten and 1st grade, 2D shapes, hexagon actities, shape booklet, graphing activities, Click on the link to view/download the Silly Shaped Owls packet.

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